For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
THERESE OF LISIEUXIf I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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